I would love to start making youtube videos what do I need to start doing that?

Are you asking about making Sims or gaming videos? Or like vlog/lifestyle/etc. types of videos?

For gaming videos, I use OBS , Audacity , a Blue Yeti Microphone, GIMP , and Davinci Resolve .

For other types of videos, any camera that records video should work fine as long as it has decent resolution settings. A lot of people just start out using their phones or the camera on their laptop. You'll just need to familiarize yourself with the camera's settings and the SD card size because certain cameras will only record for a certain amount of time and videos will use more space on your card. So you'll need to test to see how long you can record and how much you can record before you have to take a break in the recording or move the files to your computer. For these types of videos you would also still need a photo editor and a video editor. I use Davinci Resolve. It's free. It's great. I used Windows Movie Maker in the beginning, and that's an option if you have a windows computer but you can do more with a downloaded or purchased software.

Some other useful tools would be fonts and music. You can find tons of non-copyrighted music on youtube. Just be sure to check the descriptions and make sure it is copyright free, in case you ever plan on monetizing your channel. Most music channels will have credits that you can copy and paste into your video description when you use their songs. For fonts, I always get mine from Dafont. They have a lot of different options to choose from if you plan on adding text to your thumbnails. It's not a requirement, but just in case you wanted to try it.

For plugging in your microphone, depending on the microphone there will either be a USB that you can just plug into the USB port of your computer . Or there will be a plug that goes into a round hole . The hole will typically have a microphone icon next to it on the computer.

Hopefully something in this is helpful to you. I apologize. I do tend to talk too much about irrelevant stuff when explaining things. o.o